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promethean75 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 8:27 pm Who's in charge of the decorating around here? The giant red headerboard against the blue theme is just ghastly. Rick did u do that?

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popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:27 pm How long is the site going to remain all fucked up! One never knows when one will be dropped, lose a post, or be banned repeatedly.

RickLewis wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 9:36 pm

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:27 pm How long is the site going to remain all fucked up! One never knows when one will be dropped, lose a post, or be banned repeatedly.

Hi Popeye, I have no idea - I am not seeing these problems. The only issue I'm currently aware of is that if you spend too long composing a post, you may be logged out (and hence lose the post). For that, I recommend that if you are planning a long or tricky post, you should compose it in Word or somewhere and then copy and paste it to the forum afterwards.

I don't know about the banning repeatedly thing. We have had a couple of issues with people seeing messages that they were banned when they were not banned. I think that was to do with them having IP addresses close to ones that had been banned, though I may be wrong.

We keep staggering on and keeping the forum up is costing substantial sums in terms of paying Cloudflare to combat the bot problem.

Phil8659 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 10:05 am There are a number of people here, who are only here because they have nowhere else to go, they are obviously deficient.
So, why no add a new index, a sanitarium. Restrict some people to the sanitarium, do not ban them, give them a place they can be themselves.

I.E. a restricted index to the forum for special people.
A free zone for the mentally disabled. They are already here, nor can they control themselves. Why not? Be the first, or one of the first, to offer them sanctuary.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:45 pm

Phil8659 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 10:05 am There are a number of people here, who are only here because they have nowhere else to go, they are obviously deficient.
So, why no add a new index, a sanitarium. Restrict some people to the sanitarium, do not ban them, give them a place they can be themselves.

I.E. a restricted index to the forum for special people.
A free zone for the mentally disabled. They are already here, nor can they control themselves. Why not? Be the first, or one of the first, to offer them sanctuary.

The insane asking ourselves to be restricted to a sanitarium? I suppose it makes sense. Someone from the group has to step up and petition for it. I second the request.